Costa Rica’s San Jose-Caldera highway en route
Article Date: 2008 05 02
Costa Rica’s San Jose-Caldera highway en route
By Peter Krupa
Tico Times Staff | pkrupa@ticotimes.net
What for 30 years has been a punch line to jokes about Costa Rican government inefficiency finally got moving yesterday, as President Oscar Arias and other government officials inaugurated the construction of the San Jose-Caldera highway.
When completed, the 77-km stretch of road will cut driving time by almost a third from the capital to the Pacific coast down to less than an hour.
Ministry of Public Works and Transport head Karla Gonzalez said concessionaire Autopistas del Sol a consortium made up of a Spanish, a Portuguese and a Costa Rican company has 30 months to complete the highway.
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